purple sage
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A landscaper loosens the roots on a purple sage just removed from its gallon pot to prepare it for planting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
There are plugs of grasses and gallon pots of white sage, purple sage, California buckwheat, long-stem buckwheat, deerweed, narrow leaf milkweed and coyote bush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
Imbued with a heady pedigree and a peripatetic upbringing, Mr. Nichols evolved instinctively from a cosmopolitan New Yorker and world traveler to a Western writer of the purple sage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2023
They will pair her soon-to-be-born child with the roughrider of the purple sage and tug at the nation's heartstrings.
From Time Magazine Archive
An' then he stared horrible at somethin' thet wasn't Lassiter, nor anyone there, nor the room, nor the branches of purple sage peepin' into the winder.
From Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, Zane
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